Comments on: Urgent message to the US Treasury Department http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/04/urgent-message-to-the-us-treasury-department/ anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun Mon, 12 May 2008 11:13:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Charles Butler http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/04/urgent-message-to-the-us-treasury-department/#comment-138892 Charles Butler Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:12:25 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/04/urgent-message-to-the-us-treasury-department/#comment-138892 China? Here's one reason... http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/setser/247902/ China? Here’s one reason…
http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/setser/247902/

]]> By: Tom http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/04/urgent-message-to-the-us-treasury-department/#comment-138835 Tom Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:58:54 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/04/urgent-message-to-the-us-treasury-department/#comment-138835 How about Columbia, which seems to be stirring up an awful lot of trouble at the moment? or China, where they still use slave labour? Or is that a boycott? ;-) How about Columbia, which seems to be stirring up an awful lot of trouble at the moment? or China, where they still use slave labour?

Or is that a boycott? ;-)

]]> By: Trevor ap Simon http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/04/urgent-message-to-the-us-treasury-department/#comment-138834 Trevor ap Simon Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:18:46 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/04/urgent-message-to-the-us-treasury-department/#comment-138834 Manchester Guardian <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A06E7DE1E3FE633A25756C0A9659C946496D6CF&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">quoted in NY Times</a> re the Asquith blockade on Germany: <blockquote>The differences between a blockade and an embargo are three. First, you may blockade enemy ports, but you may not blockade neutral ports... A second difference is that a blockade is subject to well-recognized rules of international law, administered through prize courts, in which the aggrieved neutral has a right to appear. But an embargo is an act of a belligerent executive, which may or may not have a legal remedy.</blockquote> They seem to have forgotten the third difference. An embargo on Venezuela would be much braver and more relevant. Ve shall see vat ve shall see. Manchester Guardian quoted in NY Times re the Asquith blockade on Germany:

The differences between a blockade and an embargo are three. First, you may blockade enemy ports, but you may not blockade neutral ports… A second difference is that a blockade is subject to well-recognized rules of international law, administered through prize courts, in which the aggrieved neutral has a right to appear. But an embargo is an act of a belligerent executive, which may or may not have a legal remedy.

They seem to have forgotten the third difference.

An embargo on Venezuela would be much braver and more relevant. Ve shall see vat ve shall see.

]]> By: Tom http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/04/urgent-message-to-the-us-treasury-department/#comment-138808 Tom Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:26:40 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/04/urgent-message-to-the-us-treasury-department/#comment-138808 Now where does the embargo end and the blockade begin? Now where does the embargo end and the blockade begin?

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